Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 2 aug. 1988 - 363 pagini This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. |
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... regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency to use several of those two kinds of syllables in that order — a climactic order perhaps , a rising rhythm ( as it ...
... regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency to use several of those two kinds of syllables in that order — a climactic order perhaps , a rising rhythm ( as it ...
Pagina 3
... regular meters , such syllables are relatively rare ; but their frequent appearance in English iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates ...
... regular meters , such syllables are relatively rare ; but their frequent appearance in English iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates ...
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... regular pattern . But the effect of these com- plicating factors is both to bring iambic poetry nearer to spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict accentual - syllabic ...
... regular pattern . But the effect of these com- plicating factors is both to bring iambic poetry nearer to spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict accentual - syllabic ...
Pagina 8
... regular . " But " regularity " in iambic meter de- notes only the uniform recurrence of a relative superiority of stress in every second syllable ( or in most of them ) over the one it follows ; it does not denote an equality of stress ...
... regular . " But " regularity " in iambic meter de- notes only the uniform recurrence of a relative superiority of stress in every second syllable ( or in most of them ) over the one it follows ; it does not denote an equality of stress ...
Pagina 10
... regular iambic foot are used in specific passages and how effectively they can " represent " the speech of characters under stress or the feelings appropriate to different states of mind or visions of reality . The Two Orders Simple as ...
... regular iambic foot are used in specific passages and how effectively they can " represent " the speech of characters under stress or the feelings appropriate to different states of mind or visions of reality . The Two Orders Simple as ...
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Pattern and Variation | 38 |
4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets | 57 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 75 |
6 The Verse of Shakespeares Theater | 91 |
7 Prose and Other Diversions | 108 |
8 Short and Shared Lines | 116 |
14 The Play of Phrase and Line | 207 |
15 Shakespeares Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages | 229 |
16 What Else Shakespeares Meter Reveals | 249 |
17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton | 264 |
Verse as Speech Theater Text Tradition Illusion | 281 |
Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeares Plays | 291 |
Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeares Plays | 292 |
Short and Shared Lines | 294 |
9 Long Lines | 143 |
More Than Meets the Ear | 149 |
11 Lines with Extra Syllables | 160 |
12 Lines with Omitted Syllables | 174 |
13 Trochees | 185 |
Notes | 297 |
Main Works Cited or Consulted | 325 |
Index | 339 |
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